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Kentucky Bill Would Set Foundation to Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 9, 2021) – A bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate would empower the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a step toward restoring the founders’ constitutional framework for a state-federal balance. Sen. Adrienne Southworth (R-Lawrenceburg) introduced Senate Bill 173 (SB173) on Feb. 4. Under the prop...

Under the proposed law, the South Dakota governor could only release the state’s National Guard units into “active duty combat” if Congress has “made an official declaration of war or has taken an official action pursuant to Article I, § 8, Clause 15 of the United States Constitution, to explicitly call forth the South Dakota National Guard and any member thereof for the enumerated purposes to execute the laws of the Union, repel an invasion, or suppress an insurrection.”

Letter: Peace legislation We are writing to urge our congressman, John Garamendi, to cosponsor HR256, to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization to Use Military Force (2002 Iraq AUMF). If, after reading this letter, readers agree, we encourage them to let Rep. Garamendi know. The Constitution gives Congress sole power to declare war and requires Congress to oversee conduct of U.S. wars. Since Vietnam, Congress, rather than declare all-out wars, has authorized more limited, specific military actions ...

comments Impeachment dramas on Capitol Hill have routinely skipped over a question that we should be willing to ask, even if Congress wont: "What about a presidents unimpeachable offenses?" The question is the flipside of one that Republican Gerald Ford candidly addressed when he was the House minority leader 50 years ago: "What, then, is an impeachable offense? The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a...

NationofChange Hidden in plain sight: The “unimpeachable” offenses The presidential offenses that are routinely considered unimpeachable -- and therefore ultimately acceptable -- tell us a lot about Congress. And about U.S. mass media. And maybe about ourselves. Impeachment dramas on Capitol Hill have routinely skipped over a question that we should be willing to ask even if Congress won’t: “What about a president’s unimpeachable offenses?” The question...

Peace advocates rejoiced on Thursday in the wake of President Joe Bidens announcement that his administration will be ending U.S. support for "offensive operations" in the Saudi-led war on Yemen and appointing a diplomatic envoy to help resolve the devastating conflict that has caused an estimated 233,000 deaths. "This war has to end," Biden said during an address at the State Department. "And to underscore our commitment, we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war i...

Tim Kaine working on Trump censure resolution though other Democrats throw cold water on the idea CNN 1/27/2021 By Alison Main, Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN © Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Senator Tim Kaine(D-VA), speaks following the Senate voted on the War Powers resolution, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on February 13, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said Wednesday he has drafted a ...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Consider all this to be an analytic opinion. 1.  The roll out of the Republican insurgent operation for objection to the Electoral College vote on the 6th is indicative of where the party is going.   Mitch McConnell and the party apparatchiks in congress may think that they will be able to do business with Biden/Harris and their handlers but the the 74 million citizens who voted against the Democrats do not agree. In this context the 5 January runoffs in Georgia are larg...

Dear NIAC supporters, I am pleased to share NIAC and NIAC Action’s latest impact report. 2020 has been a tumultuous year, framed against the backdrop of three incredibly challenging years for our community and country. Yet, in spite of these challenges, together we have managed to achieve enormous successes for our community and our cause. This year, we helped rally the public against war with Iran and passed War Powers legislation to reign in the President. We finally passed legislation out ...

Scientifically impossible. within hours of the crash they were already pointing to a technical malfunction as being at the root of it. 45 ukrainian investigators have now arrived in tehran to take part in the iranian investigation. they have not yet had access to the crash site. and just a short time ago, the iranian government, unusually, urged boeing publicly, also, to take part. iran has the black boxes. it says its not giving them either to the u.s. or to boeing, but they have said theyll sh...